AMD Turion goes Mobile with Raon Digital ‘Everun Note’

Raon Digital have finally confirmed what we spotted months ago. They are building an AMD-based (AMD Turion 64×2 Dual Core 1.2GHz, 1MB L2 Cache) ultra mobile PC running XP for Asian and North American markets. This is not a netbook as it’s tiny! Smaller than an SC3. The AVING news is from a launch event that I knew was happening today. We’re closely in touch with Raon Digital and have our fingers crossed for more details and an early preview of this little wonder.

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i’m guessing they’ve put a full-back 30wh li-poly on there. Similar to Everun (hopefuly also the same so that the extended battery works) Average drain is going to be 10-12W in Wifi use. BUT….it will go right up to 20w in my estimate. Like netbooks, but more powerful.

Raon Digital appear to have some close connection with AMD. This is the second time they’ve been first to use a new AMD product.

After the original Everun I was hoping for something innovative from Raon, or at least a UMPC. No touch screen? No tablet mode? Just looks like something else to get lost in the fast growing pile of netbooks… :(

Nice to see they kept the optical mouse, but all it is doing is saving space, where on the Everun it was something special as a thumb mouse.

The pictures indicate that it’s a Turion 64 X2, at least from the banner thingie right beneath the UMPC. AVIng managed to cover it up a bit, but you can tell.

This is definitely the most compelling UMPC I’ve seen in a while. Wish it had HDMI (it’s even using the right chipset for it!), but the dock and the other ports are definitely steps in the right direction.

Geode is a brand of low-powr processors that AMD have. Raon have used them in the past but this is definately a Turion. I have it confirmed.
It ould be that come launch time, they brand it as Geode (as they did with some low-end Athlons) but it remains the same device.

This will not replace my broken Everun, pity it’s small, but tick and without touch screen and tablet mode it’s more like flipstart, I’m guessing it won’t be priced in EEE range so it probably won’t sell much either.

I guess for now I’ll stick with my HTC Advantage, it’s not a “true” UMPC but with 3G built, great size and Opera Mobile it’s (I guess) an excellent MID…

Got to agree with you on the HTC Advantage. It is an excellent MID when coupled with Opera (although I wish it could play inline flash video on sites like the BBC). Surprising how well a 5″ 640×480 4:3 screen feels, It feels like you can see more than the 5″ 800×480 Everun screen.

for the first I’m Korean.
and just same as you we got this news today, and I’ve read some of news articles about this “Everun Note.”

It has a touch-screen as well as its previous products. and the amazing thing is that this new machine is using only “1 cell” battery, and announced that it will run the machine for about 2.5 hours.
and Raon digital said it’ll be available “3 cell battery” later on. (I and some are assuming that it’s going to be an external battery type, since the battery slot seems hard to fit with an extend battery.
It’ll also have an external charger (with LAN port). the price will be around $30. (it’s not yet decided.)

Remember the Turions can do a lot of power saving tricks. For example shutting down a core, underclocking a core, different voltages per core. I have a feeling that this CPU might have a very wide range of power profiles possible from low-power to something we havent seen in Netbooks yet. IT would be great to give the consumer real choice about how they dial in the CPU power.

Pardon my poor English.
I read a Korean newspaper claimed that price is going to be around 839,000 won. That is roughly around 850$, but of course, you have to consider tax and everything. They also said it’s coming at early September.

Better touch than no-touch in my opinion. The wonderful thing about 800gm netbooks is that you can hold them in one hand and use the touchscreen with the other. I do it all the time with the SC3.
Rotating would be good though!

Battery and Battery and Battery (1 Cell battery)? Hmmm, 3 Cell as a future option as posted above in a comment, then does that mean 2.5 hrs X 3 = 7.5 Hours of use on internet?

It has touch screen (what about Ubuntu LINUX or the Mobile Ubuntu stuff). Why just a XP option (is Microsoft paying someone off to not do a cheaper Linux version)?

This would be really good with Pixel Qi screen tech (with direct sunlight mode). Note that I know no one at Pixel Qi just that the OLPC XO has great battery life with Generic $10 user replaceable battery… and has a a great screen for use outdoors. FYI – There is a new OLPC XO-2 design that is much smaller than the current XO. for a view of size see:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzTobDDOnkA&NR=1

However, I like the potential “pocketable” size of this AMD device with the features so far… with 7.5 hours of battery if that is ever possible then this could be the one (if no XP).

I’m in touch with Raon and confident we’ll get this in for testing soon. They’ve always been very supportive of UMPCPOrtal. We also run the official forum so they ‘have’ to send one over so I can test for their customers! ;-)

Touch type is a no-no on this but you’ll get a quasi touch type experience. I’m kind of developing this on the SC3. Ask Psion 5 owners. They’ll tell you about how they adapted to the keyboard and realised good speeds!
Steve

“mini USB connecting LAN port and main body.. Battery can be replaced by connecting this to AC power without really taking battery out of main body. In other words, battery can be replaced like gun magazine, and user is able to use other battery without turning it off. Very good idea. Battery pack price will be 30~50$ at this point.”

OK. I actually visited the blog this time.
That thing is a power adapter which can recharge the extra battery if you have any. It has the LAN port which is missing on main body, probably because of size issue.

Its almost like UMPCs and/or Netbooks have a certain VOLUME they have to be :) if they go flat (MB Air, yes no UMPC but…) they go big/wide, and if they go smaller they tend to be relatively thick like OQO not to mention Flipstart. Now I didn’t look at the figures on this one yet but looks a bit thick no?

True, I think I am slowly drifting away from being a pocketable UMPC fan to being a Netbook (lightweight / subnotebook) fan, as it just seems there won’t be a Pocketable UMPC in the performance/size and battery time I wish to see.

BTW Chippy, did you get my info about the AT&T prepaid HSDPA service?
(That same service has opened some new ideas for myself, a happy Tmo USA customer, but longing for 3G at times w/out really wanting to join AT&T)

I agree with you,but,THE POWER,the power could be very
tempting especial on those tiny devices.
If it will work like an charm i see a lot of people jumping in the bandwagon just for the fun of it!
On other part amd is not intel and as usual with amd are some problems that intel don’t have.

I’ll be interested to read benchmarks and to see vids from users in weeks to come. This is out of my market, though. Just too small for typing. (Yeah, trying out the Asus 1000 keyboard size has just spoiled me!)

This is another proof AMD is better then Intel. You don’t see such form factor based on the Intel Atom.

Problem is probably going to be price though. AMD doesn’t really push the low cost laptop idea as I think they should. AMD could have taken the Geode based OLPC and produced millions of commercial versions of it by now, but they don’t do it. AMD doesn’t like the idea of large quantities delivered at low if not non-existant profit margins to replace their own existing market share in much more expensive higher power processors.

If you need this size, then you’ve found the small laptop that is for you. But I don’t like that small keyboard, and to me 7″ is just too big for the pocket, and it’s too small for being really productive. For watching videos it’s an ok size, but this laptop probably is much more expensive the similar size and weight 7″ Archos video playing devices which also have basic browser and WiFi for casual browsing.

That is my basic complaint with the whole Microsoft and Intel name that is the UMPC, or the netbook. Too big for pocket, too small for productivity.

What I want in a laptop, is at least 14″ and a full sized keyboard. Otherwise it’s just not going to be confortable to do stuff like posting this message to this blog post. Then I also want a pocket device that does everything while on the go in situations that I don’t want to use a laptop, such as in public transportation, while not going to/from work, while not going to/from study, while walking in the streets, while walking around in the city without having to carry a bag for the laptop.

And if I want to be slightly more productive using a pocket device, I want to use a full sized foldable keyboard at least. These small keyboards are not for adults to be productive. For children to play games and explore the web, given their small fingers, and given that they probably will not type text very fast before being at least semi-teenager, then small keyboards are ok for young children. For those types of children that do not want to type this type of comment on this type of blog.

If you take a look at any umpc forum and youtube videos about umpcs, you will see many comments about gaming and in some cases, how well it ran various pc games were a reason for some to make a purchase. This new everun umpc will possibly fill a gap in this market. So many times I have seen people asking about gaming on umpcs, creating lists of games that run etc. I look forward to seeing lots of youtube videos of this running 3D games. I will buy one myself mostly for gaming.